*tamal
Bless her for trying to course correct.
Makes 100% sense too. The corn husk is the worst part of the tamal.
What do you guys to with the white rubbery thing after drinking your mozzarella?
It’s great for throwing at people
I gagged
swallowing the cotton is the worse part of getting new medication
I had no idea what you meant by this, and after some searching it seems that cotton balls used to be added to pill bottles to reduce breakage. Is that still a thing?
that’s how you find out i’m old and unmedicated
Well, pill bottles aren’t really a common thing where I live, so I might just have wrong information too!
Eating peanuts is the worst part of getting a new package
The high you get from sucking the bubble wrap air is not worth the effort.
When they started shipping things with the corn starch packing peanuts we got some cheese powder and tried to toast them at work. They never came out quite right.
You can lick the ends of them and build things!
I’ve never seen a tamale, let alone eaten one, but I was still pretty sure the corn husk wasn’t supposed to be eaten.
You are missing out my friend. Seriously one of the top foods
Do you mean the tamale or the corn husk?
Yes
Same thing
I’ve had a couple over the years and was totally unimpressed. It wasn’t bad, just kinda bland mush. I guess it must vary a lot given how you’re rating it
You have to get a good connect. You’ll find them where you least expect. I used to buy tamales from the place that refilled my propane tanks.
Somewhere in your city there exists a retired Mexican man driving an SUV with an Igloo cooler in the back full of 300 tamales his wife made this morning. There’s at least one in every big city. These are the tamales you want. You’ll find them at some random street corner near the Home Depot or near a mechanic’s shop and they are some of the best food you’ll ever eat.
You literally just described my hookup. He goes to the bars here in Houston. He also has homemade sauces his wife made in small containers that go with each half dozen sold or to buy a jar by itself. He comes out less often in the last year (gee, I fucking wonder why) but I got in good with him and have his number so he’ll meet me anytime between noon and midnight most days.
Anyone who wants a real tamale experience, listen to this person’s advice. And if you still don’t like them, well you gave them a fair shot. And that’s ok too.
We must protect our trunk tamale men and women at all costs. Them, and the elote street corn sellers.
I still haven’t found my elote guy :(
100% this. Store-bought or restaurant tamales almost never taste as good as home made.
Honestly I kind of like the cheap individually wrapped ones from the frozen aisle lol
Nothing comes close to a trunk/cart tamale, of course.
The best tamales I’ve ever had have always been from random people who approach me in a Home Depot parking lot.
this works for everything
the best X i’v ever had has always been from random people who approach me in a parking lot
Lol, I wish I could say the same. Most people just approach me for cigarettes or money.
Mexican here, tamal (without e) is a class of foods, think of it like cake or pie, maybe not quite as varied, but definitely not a single thing, there are good tamales and bad tamales.
Am I reading it right that a tamal is basically a burrito steamed in a corn husk?
Corn isn’t as pervasive in the Europes and Asia, but I’m sometimes making something approaching a burrito, in a wheat-based wrapping — sort of a Mexiconized shawarma. Heard of tamales a bunch of times, and could get a corn tortilla for it, but not sure what steaming adds outside of making the whole thing softer.
A tamal is made of dough so the steaming is done so the dough isn’t raw, I don’t think it’s comparable with a burrito which is some sort of taco made of fluor tortilla
There are some tamales that aren’t made of dough though and still called tamales, it’s usually meats where I live but I’m sure it’s different in other areas
depends on the tamale, what you describe sounds like canned or ‘fast’ food tamales.
There is a guy who shows up with a cooler full of piping hot tamales about once a week down the street. He puts up a little folding table, a crappy little chair and it’s cash only. $1 for the best fucking tamale ever made by man. It’s hard to make sure to get there before he sells out. It’s usually within an hour.
First time I ever tried a real mango was when a coworker offered me a half she has already scored into squares. She handed it to me and I asked “How do I eat it?” She said, nonplussed “You just eat it.” “I just take a bite?” “Yeah.”
So I take a bite of this piece of fruit she handed me. As I force myself to chew and swallow this tough, bitter garbage fruit, I tell her “I don’t think it’s for me.” I look at her and apparently she had just been staring at me in open mouthed horror, instead of warning me “Don’t eat the skin!”
What the fuck did she expect you to do? She literally told you to just take a bite lol
I have an aunt who eat kiwi fruit like an apple. Just hold it in your hand, and bite. She chews it with and all.
She’s otherwise a normal and kind person.
It’s good this way.
It’s not like a banana or a watermelon or something. The only reason people think it’s weird is the texture, but by the time you’re chewing the bite it’s not evident. I wouldn’t lick a kiwi or run my lips on it unless you’re a total weirdo, but I can recommend eating it whole. It adds just a little tart flavor and a little more crunch to the experience (and also you don’t need a spoon anymore).
That’s not at all comparable.
Eating Kiwi with skin is awesome.is it really?
Perfect snack for hiking.
I mean I haven’t eaten kiwis in a long while, and didn’t eat the skin, but if I had to choose, I’d definitely choose kiwi skin over mango skin.
Kiwi skin just seems like a tad chewy perhaps (good fiber), but mango skin seems like it might make me nauseous even if I could get it down.
Everyone talking about how they didn’t know or should’ve known or whatever. Yeah ok.
Others saying it’s good she tried correcting her review, that’s good.
But why is no one commenting on how you shouldn’t review things you don’t understand?
Like, maybe all tamales are supposed to be eaten with the husk, and that’s how people do it and like it, but you just don’t like it. That’s fine, you just don’t like it!
A review is meant to tell other people who enjoy a thing, how good that thing is at whatever place you’re getting it from.
Imagine going to a 5 star restaurant, ordering chicken Cordon bleu, and then giving them a one star review because you don’t like chicken. Or salmon but you don’t like fish.
Just seems weird to me. I would never review a place badly because I didn’t like what I’d order, when it was literally the first time I’ve had it, evidenced in the case by the fact she didn’t know how to eat it properly.
Now if I’ve had something a few times, know I usually like it, but this time it was bad? Go wild 🤷♂️
People who don’t understand that they don’t understand things write reviews like this, and that is a lot more people than you might expect
I could see some white person getting tamales that came unwrapped being confused if served tamales in the husk. Altho I will admit that I feel this is a REALLY difficult mistake to make.
